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Ruins : Whitechapel, Documents of Contemporary Art - Brian Dillon TPB (BxA)
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- Dillon, Brian [Editor]
- ISBN
- 9780262516372
- Book Title
- Ruins
- Book Series
- Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art Ser.
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- History / Contemporary (1945-), General, History / General, Subjects & Themes / General
- Item Weight
- 19.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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A comprehensive examination of "ruins" of the modern era in contemporary art and cultural theory. The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's turn toward site and situation, history and memory. The abiding interest of artists in ruination and decay has led in particular to the concept of the modern ruin--an ambiguous site of artistic and architectural modernism, personal and collective memories, and the cultural afterlife of eras such as those of state communism and colonialism. Contemporary art's explorations of the ruin can evoke on the one hand diverse experiences of nostalgia and on the other a ceaselessly renewed encounter with catastrophes of the recent past and apprehensions of the future. For every relic of a harmonious era or utopian dream stands another recalling industrial decline, environmental disaster, and the depredations of war. This anthology provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary ruin in cultural discourse, aesthetics, and artistic practice. It examines the development of ruin aesthetics from the early modern era to the present; the ruin as a privileged emblem of modernity's decline; the relic as a portal onto the political history of the recent past; the destruction and decline of cities and landscapes, with the emergence of "non-places" and "drosscape"; the symbolism of the entropic and decayed in critical environmentalism; and the confusing temporalities of the ruin in recent art--its involution of timescales and perspectives as it addresses not just the past but the future.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262516373
ISBN-13
9780262516372
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109074846
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ruins
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), General, History / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Book Series
Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
A useful primer on a subject of perennial interest. Each generation finds something new among the ruins, and this is a good guide to the ruin in contemporary art.-- Library Journal --, A useful primer on a subject of perennial interest. Each generation finds something new among the ruins, and this is a good guide to the ruin in contemporary art., "A useful primer on a subject of perennial interest. Each generation finds something new among the ruins, and this is a good guide to the ruin in contemporary art." -- Amy Trendler , Library Journal
Lccn
2011-011787
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Age Range
18
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
709
Lc Classification Number
Nx650.R84r85 2011
Copyright Date
2011
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